This is the letter and enclosed poems Patricia Goedicke (then Patricia McKenna) sent to Robert Frost in 1952 and Frost's reply. McKenna was a student at Middlebury College when the letter was sent, and judging by the date, the letter was sent...

'Complex' construction contract signed; Grant approved for community centers; Salish-Kootenai Community College no longer a vision; Complex will be built in Pablo; Indian Mass: A blending of old and new; Coyote tales, Coyote and the ducks; Two...

Drafts of The Movie about the Dead Cellist by Patricia Goedicke. This poem by Goedicke appeared in As Earth Begins to End. Some drafts in this file document comments made by the Rattlesnake Ladies' Salon, a group of female writers from Missoula...

In November of 1988, Patricia Goedicke delivered a lecture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence about the function of sound and silence in poetry. These are the notes for that lecture, which emerged from an imitation workshop she taught...

In these drafts of a poem titled "The Outer Banks," one begins to see the framework of the finished poem. Gone are the overt references to specific assassinations, such as Whitman's lilacs in commemoration of Lincoln's death and the image of...

In these early notes for The Man Who Loved Beauty, Leonard Wallace Robinson sketches the general relationship between the main character and his wife. While these notes begin in the third person, they move to the first person by page two.

Goedicke, Patricia. American literature--20th century. As Earth Begins to End.

In this letter to Sam Hamill at Copper Canyon Press, officially submits her manuscript to Copper Canyon for publication. As stated in the letter, she had previously submitted the manuscript to Milkweed Press, who published her prior three books,...

Money-saving reorganization plan passes probation; Road closure policy is under fire; North end gets a district meeting too; U of M commencement convenes briefly at SKC; Flathead students take honors at I.T.Y.P.; Teens get pointers on getting...

Patricia Goedicke retired from the University of Montana in 2003. As one of her last acts as professor, she gave a commencement speech in which she elaborated upon the importance of the imagination in understanding each other and the world we live...